How To Setup a Custom Email Address With Gmail and G Suite

A custom email address is always best for professionals and businesses. Free email addresses based on domain of the email service provider, such as @gmail.com, @hotmail.com, and @yahoo.com. But, a custom email address based on your own custom domain name, such as @example.com, @john.com, @mycompanyname.com.

If your company or business runs a website on a hosting server, then you can setup mail server and create custom email accounts based on a domain name. But the world’s most popular email service, Gmail, is much better on managing emails.

G Suite (or Google Apps For Work) is a service by Google Cloud, helps you create and manage a custom email address with the Gmail. All you need a domain name.

Which G Suite Plan Do I Need?

There are three paid plans in G Suite, Basic/Business/Enterprise. The basic plan is best for new and small businesses, comes with a custom email address and 30 GB mailbox storage. It cost you $5/user/month or you can take a 14-day free trial for up to 10 users (no payment information required).

Do you have a domain name?

In order to create a custom email address, you should have a domain name. You can register a new one through a domain name registrar, or with G Suite. Please login to your domain panel, in order to verify domain ownership with G Suite.

How to add a new user: Login to admin.google.com with the administrator account > open the left-hand menu and select Users > Click the Add (+) icon > Type the information of a new user and set their primary email address. Now, the user can login with their email address and password on admin.google.com.

You can also import multiple users.

How to use your business logo in Gmail inbox: You can change the Google logo showing at the top-left corner in Gmail inbox. Only for G Suite users.